A day at the ocean

Megan, Alex and I headed down to Ocean Shores today to go to a memorial service for Heidi's Uncle. They had a nice family get together (we crashed it) at a house that they rented and then all went to the jetty to spread her Uncle's ashes and spend some time there. It was a really nice day.
It was a pretty nice day out. It was windy but I think you get that at the ocean no matter what.

Alex and Jacob playing with Ranger.

Megan and Heidi all ready to go.

Heidi and Jacob. He is getting to big!!!!!!

Megan and Alex when we got to the beach.

Alex and Jacob up on the hill.

Megan and I out in the breeze.

We climbed up the rocks to watch them spread the ashes.

Megan was the official photographer so she has her camera in all of our pictures. She got some really good pictures so I hope they enjoy them.

The kids made a teeter tooter and used Alex as the weight in the middle. It was pretty funny.

Jacob and Jeff when we are getting ready to head back to the house.

We went back and had some lunch and talked to everyone for awhile and then headed back to the beach to fly some kites.

Alex had been asking to buy a kite all day so he was really happy to hear the Jeff had 3 of them.

After the beach we went back to Heidi's hotel so the kids could swim.

They had a lot of fun swimming around.

We had so much fun with everyone for the day. It was a nice service for all of them and we had a great time getting to see everyone and play around all day long.

What to do with the hair?????

Megan is having all sorts of problems deciding what to do with her hair for the 9th grade dance. We have tried a couple of different styles but none have been what she wanted so we are trying some more today.
We started with the curlers. They look so pretty.

To much curls she thought.

Then we have the side twist. It was cute but still not what she was thinking.

This is a side brade. It looked cute but needs some more practice. I didn't think I did to bad for a first attempt but we would have to work on it some. It still wasn't her favorite though so we are changing our plans. More practice shots to come!!!!!

Alot of dresses

I took Megan shopping for her dress for the dance today. I don't think that she thought I would buy her what she wanted so we took Olivia and Gillian for her back up.
Gillian and Olivia waiting while Megan tries on the first 100 dresses she found.

This one was a big no no.

We all liked this one so it made the maybe pile.

This one was my favorite but I got out numbered.

This one was the winner. All three girls thought it was the best one and Megan really liked it so it is what we went with. Now to get some shoes to go with it and we should be good to go. I guess it would help if we found out the actual date of the dance also. I will keep you posted.

Dance time!!!!

I guess Megan is going to the 9th grade dance with a boy!!!!! She was planning on going with a whole group of people but now she seems to have a date. I am not sure Mike is to happy about this. :)
Megan went to her friend Gillian's house after school today for a sleep over and Jake just happens to be Gillian's neighbor so he posted these signs on her garage. I found out about this when I got onto facebook and Gillian had posted the pictures. Nice!!!!! Megan tried to tell me it had just happened but I know she is wrong. Needless to say she wants to go dress shopping tomorrow so I guess that's the plan. Good thing she already found a dress that she likes so it shouldn't be to much work.

Mother's Day

As everyone knows, Sunday was Mother's Day. We didn't do to much around here for the day.
Mike made breakfast for everyone. We had all sorts of good stuff. He took this beautiful picture at the exact time that he said to turn around so it is a really nice one.

Mike and the kids bought me a new radio for the car. The radio that was in it was pretty fancy with a tape deck but I don't own any tapes anymore so they bought me this really nice CD Player. Mike put it in for me and it sounds great.

I got some really beautiful picture frames from the Keyes family but they were both broken. I think that I can glue them back together though and make them look perfect. They had the cutest pictures of me and the kids in them from their visit last month.

Megan and Alex are both getting so big. They are getting to that age where they really don't care to hang out with me so much so I spent most of the day watching tv, alone. The good news is that as soon as either one of them wants something I become their best friend!!!!!!

Alex and I in the morning before he decided it would be more fun to play with Conner for the day.

Megan and I were having some camera issues. All of our pictures were fuzzy. I think we were to close to the camera or we shouldn't have let Alex take the picture!!!!!!

We went to the cemetary and down to Marilyn's in the afternoon and then we got to go out for dinner at the Black Angus and go watch Mike's bowling league. He had record scores for the night so I think we were his good luck charm and the kids got to bowl a couple of games so it was a fun time.

Old and New

I sold my Dodge Durango. I have really loved this car and I enjoy that it has so much room to take people with me when I need to but it just kills me every few days when I put $75 of gas into it to drive just myself back and forth to work so I made the hard decision to sell it and get a smaller car.

My final goodbye pictures.

This is the new car that I got to replace it. Well, I guess it isn't really new. It's a 2003 Hyandai Elantra. We looked at a ton of different cars and researched them all on the internet and out of everything we looked at this one had the best ratings and the lowest mileage so I think it was a good pick. I had been wanting to look at this type so I think that it worked out great.

Mike filled it with gas yesterday and it only cost $42 so we are already off to a good start and I have driven over 100 miles and it is still on full. The Durango would already be to almost a half of tank at 100 miles so I am excited to see how many miles I get out of a tank.

Megan's Sleepover

I didn't do to good of a job getting pictures of the girls that stayed the night for Megan's birthday. They slept out in the trailer so it was nice and quiet in the house all night. Megan took the camera out with her but these were the only two pictures that she took.

These are some very crazy girls. They did manage to sleep in in the morning so it gave me plenty of time to make all of the breakfast food that they had asked for. I was very impressed with myself. :)

First we have cupcakes. I did make these the night before for the party but they wanted them for breakfast also so I am counting them.

Glazed doughnut muffins. I found this doughnut recipe in the same book as the cinnamon rolls that they wanted but you made these in muffin pans so they were really easy.

Cinnamon and sugar covered doughnut muffins.

What is left of the cinnamon rolls!! These are what they had really asked for and I forgot to take a picture of how good they looked before they ruined them and ate them all.

I think that Megan had a great birthday party weekend. It was alot of fun to have everyone over.